The pickup switch on the guitar is "real". That is, we took a perfectly good strat, pulled off the pick guard, and soldered a separate jack to each pickup. We then recorded the 3 outputs simultaneously to retain the phase relationship between them. You can even switch pickups while playing! No noise reduction was applied.

No need for separate guitar effects plugs-Effects like compression, delay, distortion, flanger, and reverb are ready to go!